{"id":183207,"date":"2015-01-26T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/26\/linkage-299\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T11:39:00","slug":"linkage-299","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/26\/linkage-299\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/politics\/2015\/01\/simon-heffer-why-it-s-time-debunk-churchill-myth\">Why it\u2019s time to debunk the Churchill myth<\/a> (<i>New Statesman<\/i>) Really not a surprise for an even indifferent student of history.&nbsp; Except for predicting war in Europe correctly (about a dozen times), Churchill had a very long history of being disastrously wrong on <b>everything<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/accidentalscientist.com\/2014\/12\/why-movies-look-weird-at-48fps-and-games-are-better-at-60fps-and-the-uncanny-valley.html?\">Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps, and the uncanny valley\u2026<\/a> (<i>Accidental Scientist<\/i>) A full on nerdgasm on motion pictures, the eye, and the human nervous system.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ifixit.org\/blog\/6882\/why-i-drilled-holes-in-my-macbook-pro-and-put-it-in-the-oven\/\">Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven<\/a> (<i>iFixit<\/i>) It actually f%$#ing worked, go figure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/back-from-yet-another-globetrotting-adventure-indiana-jones-checks-his-mail-and-discovers-that-his-bid-for-tenure-has-been-denied\">Back  From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail  And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied.<\/a> (<i>McSweeney&#8217;s<\/i>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/40402\/how-stupid-is-a-davos-audience-anyway\/\">How stupid is a Davos audience, anyway?<\/a> (<i>Felix Salmon<\/i>) Thunderous applause for Tom &#8220;The Mustache of Banality&#8221; Friedman<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2871512\/how-to-protect-yourself-against-verizons-mobile-tracking.html#tk.nl_today\">The best defenses against Verizon&#8217;s invasive, already-being-abused web tracking<\/a> (<i>PC World<\/i>) They don&#8217;;t mention dumping Verizon like a hot potato.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;How to gift wrap your cat:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jm3dm5J5r0A\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe> <br \/>I am surprised about just how accepting this cat is of this.<\/p>\n<p>My darlings would have drawn blood.<\/p>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s been a while, here is a bonus vid:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10152452463152807\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=10152452463152807\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CollegeHumor\">CollegeHumor<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why it\u2019s time to debunk the Churchill myth (New Statesman) Really not a surprise for an even indifferent student of history.&nbsp; Except for predicting war in Europe correctly (about a dozen times), Churchill had a very long history of being disastrously wrong on everything. Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}